To feel utterly miserable about a future with Andy Burnham as PM?

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I feel like I'm being stung in every possible way at the moment- £15 a day on tube to work, high mortgage costs, high energy costs, private schooling for SEN child (I was told state wouldn't be unlikely to assist him as he isn't mute or violent). My parents have had to help fund schooling it felt like my only hope as son has behavioural issues.

I also have an unsold old home that I have to rent out as it wouldn't sell. Buy-to-let mortgage costs, agent fees, maintenance and tax put me in a loss position.

I can't bear what the future holds with Andy Burnham. I have no doubt that he will find new and imaginative ways to keep me in this financial nightmare. I'm literally struggling from food poverty but regarded as rich by policy.

YABU- Andy Burnham is actually going to make things better

YANBU- I'm screwed

All those Labour men. They’re putting people off too don’t worry.

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He’s still gone 😬

Trump is going to make mincemeat out of Burnham, whom clearly is an anti semite - retraction or no retraction.

What an astonishing poor start to choose anti semitism over any actual god damn policy. How could it really get any worse???

Burnham is now toast, but didn’t want the job as PM anyway, so I am sure it is kindness really.

Your posts are attracting unhappy Labour supporters. They won’t like losing Starmer.

More taxes from the middle to fund lifestyles of the idle.....

So no straight answer, then? Nicknames are fine if they aren't about Badenoch?

And I still say it is hypocritical to object to nicknames about Badenoch if one is happy to use them for other politicians.

What retraction do you mean? Genuinely asking.

There seems to be a bit of a do about this cabinet, mainly about who is going to be chancellor. Was there a do when Starmer chose his cabinet or did he just pick who he wanted with no fuss from the MPs

There’s only a ‘do’ in that Burnham’s not going to announce his cabinet until Monday and it’s driving the media crazy having to wait.

What a lot of odd assumptions you are making.
I haven't mentioned benefits, just stated facts in a previous post about the OP owning 2 homes and sending a child to a private school.
Who mentioned anything about it being illegal?
I literally said it was her choice not to sell her other home, and one that she needs to accept responsibility for.
She can worry about a new government but many will have far less sympathy for someone who is clearly comfortably off complaining that she is on the bread line than someone who is genuinely on the breadline.
I hope that helps clarify my position.

Who told you that I was a Labour supporter? You are incorrect by the way.
Your obvious hatred for Labour and tribalism prevents you from seeing things clearly.
If this evasive 'growth' that people keen talking about was so easy, why did the Tories fail in their 14 years? Try to think about it objectively.

I do agree with you there @Meadowfinch. However, what did the Tories do for small business? They are all run by the huge corporations, unfortunately.
A better system could certainly be designed but it would involve a huge overhaul and I can't see any of the current parties doing that. They need to overhaul this notion of growth too...

It will shift if you lower the price enough. That is a certainty unless there is a major issue such as cladding. According to your OP, you are already taking a loss now that it is rented out.

I've seen enough. My curiosity is at an end. I no longer care what happens.

I very much doubt that this is the case because she appears to have already bought a second house. The OP has had plenty of time to explain the situation if there has been a misunderstanding here.

You can probably use 'We buy any house' type place or Auction. This is what DS will probably have to do to offload ours when we die.

OP - I’m sorry you’ve received so much flack here.

For those that haven’t had to contemplate the SEN system you have no idea how it works.

on paper yes send kid to special school and all will be well. In reality, it’s years waiting for a diagnosis. 2 years. Years waiting for echp. 18-24 months. Then applying for the school itself. (If there is one that suits their needs - keeping in mind some counties in the UK do not have autistic schools or places) 6-12 months. Then having to appeal as it’s usually rejected. 12 months. This also costs families thousands of pounds. The system is failing genuine people in need - you only have to google recent findings of councils laughing at families. This is the tip of the ice berg.

well done for putting yourself in such a difficult position for your child’s wellbeing and future.

I also understand your position on selling your other property. You are struggling at the moment and selling at a loss will put you in further debt that you can’t afford to have.

there’s no quick fixes here.

unfortunately some people on mumsnet see second home and private school = money and stop complaining when it’s far from the truth.

To answer your question - I am concerned about the impact new policies are going to have.

Me too. I liked Keir.

Please save us from charismatic PMs! From Thatcher to Blair to Johnson and now the super-smug Burnham. I like solid, unglamorous, genuine ones like Major, Brown, May.

Oh well. It will be what it will be but I think, for all his fancy ideas, he'll find he's enmeshed in the usual stuff - foreign affairs and defence etc - and won't have time to implement his more out-there plans.

There is no appetite for any further tax raids.

Burnham needs to understand this when the rubber hits the road on Monday.
Money tree politics does not work.

Meanwhile, I still have a smile on my face from Starmer and Reeves having been binned.

Did Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak have a right to the premiership or do you only object when it's a Labour government.

Look, Truss and Sunak no longer matter - that’s done.

It’s Labours to own now, and that’s how the majority of the electorate see it.

I agree. You can only squeeze the hardworking sector of the population so much. He needs to look at where money can be saved...and I could suggest a few!

Lots of institutions which I totally support in principle, just to be clear, waste money hand over fist. I've worked in the public services and I know just how much gets wasted. And the BBC, which I wouldn't be without, is shocking! Never believe them when they say they haven't enough funds - they are profligate with what they're given, and frankly need to focus on being a public service broadcaster and do the important core things and not try to rival Netflix or the commercial channels.

The NHS - why do I need to be called to 5 separate appointments to deal with a suspicious mole??? This is where the money goes.

Lol! He managed to comprehensively beat Reform in the Makerfield by-election where Reform had won in a landslide in the local elections only about a month earlier. I bet you needed therapy after that!

Obviously, anyone slightly to the left of Hitler or Trump is far-left in your eyes. The right, particularly the far right like Reform and Restore voters, are really thin-skinned and really whiney and ungracious losers.